...to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the...opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he.5 I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead...

...and knows that his will is higher and more excellent than all actual and all possible antagonists." "A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he." "Great works of art," he again saySj "teach us to abide...

...and knows that his will is higher and more excellent than all actual and all possible antagonists." "A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he." "Great works of art," he again says, "teach us to abide...

...to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the...capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead 7 institutions. (J Every decent and well-spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right....

...but we know that it is diyine. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution ;...if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. SELF-RELIANCE NOVEMBER THIRTEENTH One thing is forever good, That one thing is success, — Dear to...

...general would adopt the saying of Emerson : "Virtue is the adherence in action to the nature of things: The only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong is what is against it." And if the retort be made : "These impulses may be from below," Whitman would...

...we value total powers and effects — as, the impression, the quality, the spirit of men and things. A MAN is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition...if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. "THE prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower, kneeling with...

...bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my 5 constitution ; the only wrong what is against it....presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular1 and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names,...

...man obeys his constitution, he will be in the right. Here is Emerson's only sanction of morality ; " the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it." A man cannot violate his own nature, in any case ; but error lies in setting up - one part of it by itself....

...sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names readily transferable to this or that ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong is what is against it." A little after he says, " I suppose no man can violate his nature." Now, we...